97 years old and Instagram-ready: Art icon Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama's art reflects her mental health struggles and personal experiences, transforming challenges into immersive installations and polka dot sculptures.
2025's most influential exhibitions ranged from immersive installations to large-scale retrospectives, showcasing infinity rooms, fabric architectures, and mist-filled installations worldwide.
At Tokyo's National Museum of Modern Art, the anti-action art of Japan's women artists finds a new lease of life
Yayoi Kusama and other Japanese women artists pursued inward-driven, anti-establishment art in the 1950s–60s despite poverty, critical neglect, and a dominant action-painting scene.
Christie's Hong Kong autumn sale drops 46% from last year but makes Picasso's record in Asia
Christie's 20/21st Century Autumn sale in Hong Kong totaled US$72.6 million, down 46% year-on-year, with Picasso's 1944 Buste de Femme setting an Asia record.